SZ/OEMU/7/5 - [OEMU. Bomb Appreciations and Casualty Reports. Oxford data on standardised casualty rates and de-housing]

Reference code

SZ/OEMU/7/5

Level of description

File

Title

[OEMU. Bomb Appreciations and Casualty Reports. Oxford data on standardised casualty rates and de-housing]

Date/s

1940

Quantity & Format

8 items Mixed

Personal name

Harrod, Roy

Subject

World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, German
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British
World War, 1939-1945 -- Air raid casualties
Incendiary bombs
Explosions -- Damage

Scope and content

Contains a letter from SZ to R.F. Harrod of the Prime Minister's Statistical Department about the number of houses destroyed or made uninhabitable by one ton of high explosive bombs. The letter also discusses the amount of damage caused by incendiary bombs. Also included is a table on the relation of bombing density to percentage of occupants de-housed in six German towns, MS notes on casualty rates in day and night raids, and a draft paper on the same subject.

Not catalogued to item level.

SZ - Zuckerman Archive
- SZ/OEMU - Ministry of Home Security, Oxford Extra-Mural Unit
  - SZ/OEMU/7 - [OEMU. Bomb Appreciations and Casualty Reports]
    - SZ/OEMU/7/5 - [OEMU. Bomb Appreciations and Casualty Reports. Oxford data on standardised casualty rates and de-housing]

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